This 2-day course will provide a comprehensive overview of rare earth and critical elements in ore deposits. The material will emphasize deposit types, major deposits, critical element mineralogy and geochemistry, processes controlling ore grade enrichment, and exploration guides. Rare earth elements will be a major focus of the course because of their broad interest during the past decade, but we will also cover present knowledge of where and how enrichments take place in deposits for commodities such as antimony, cobalt, germanium, indium, lithium, niobium, tantalum, and tellurium.

Title: Mineral Resource Management CourseLocation: The University of Cape Town |
Rondebosch, South AfricaWebsite:Register Online

This popular and practical SEG workshop will be held prior to the Mining Indaba meeting. The workshop will focus on the fundamentals of geology and sampling that are required for robust mineral resource estimation and will include an introduction to variography and kriging. Industry geologists, mine managers and investors, as well as upper level undergraduate and graduate students in economic geology, will find the workshop relevant and useful.

This workshop will focus on the most widespread mineral deposit types that host much of the current global gold resource. Leading experts will provide descriptions of some of the most important Precambrian and Phanerozoic examples of gold deposit types formed in island and continental arcs, evolving metamorphic belts, and seafloor settings. Learn more.

This conference will address issues related to new understanding in mineral deposits, tectonics, basins, metallogenesis, new technologies and approaches in mineral and energy resources exploration, including the challenge of exploration in areas with cover, and trends in the resources industry.

The conference aim is providing a platform for researchers and practitioners to exchange emerging ideas and to investigate key issues of geochemistry, petrology, and metallogeny of terrestrial magmatism. Participants can take part in one-day field excursions to the famous ore deposits and geological localities of the Ural Mountains.

The XI International School for young scientists, which will focus on introducing state-of-the-art developments in the field of earth sciences, will be held concurrently with the conference.